Cryptic “cumtux” in a real rough Arizona newspaper
Your guess is as good as mine about this funny slug of out-of-place Chinook…
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The Indians will have plenty of muck-a-muck for the winter
A century and a half later, I wish all my readers háyú mə́kʰmək for the coming year.
What do Mary’s little lamb and Chinuk Wawa have to do with each other?
This one gets pretty free-range…
1881: Remoter Sechelts don’t know Chinuk Wawa
For a community who embraced “Chinook Writing” and Chinook Jargon in the 1890s, the Sechelt Salish people of BC’s Sunshine Coast surprise us by their 1880s unfamiliarity with Jargon.
The Great Potlatch Era
A tiny history lesson:
“Builders by the Sea” by Bonnycastle Dale
The author, Ontario-born BC naturalist Henry William Johnstone Bonnycastle Dale (Waddingham) (1868-1936), has a double surname and a double publishing credit here…
Discovered: GAMINE is the etymology of lakamín ‘stew; gravy’
Among the delights of my years of Chinuk Wawa research is to just read and read … because there’s so much old data that’s never previously been analyzed.
“Kamloops Wawa” in The Stenographer magazine (Part 1)
When Kamloops Wawa was still new, many people far away were taking an interest in it…
1889: Siletz Athabaskan Chinuk Wawa myth awaits your translation
Back-translation, that is. We’ve known at least one myth told in Chinook Jargon by a Siletz Reservation Indian to linguistic anthropologist Melville Jacobs (1902-1971)…
1856: Monsignor Demers writes another letter
On January 21, 1856, Modeste Demers undertook one typical minor duty of a frontier archbishop such as himself: he wrote a report to the bosses, in the form of a letter…